The president said that the increase to 25 percent from 15 percent is a response to South Korea’s failure to ratify a trade agreement.
KIA Motors’ vehicles are parked to be exported, at a port in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on July 31, 2025. Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
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President Donald Trump on Jan. 26 announced that the United States would be increasing tariff duties on South Korea to a new rate of 25 percent from the previous rate of 15 percent.
Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said that the South Korean legislature “is not living up to its Deal with the United States” through its failure to enact the agreement.
Joseph Lord is a congressional reporter for The Epoch Times.
